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Serious Play: A Dialogue on Jewish Writing

Rebecca and Yael Goldstein, mother and daughter, discuss what makes them Jewish writers and to what extent they have these traits in common with non-Jewish writers. They conclude that in addition to being Jewish and being writers, they fell in love with Jewish stories at an early age, they exhibit a certain playfulness with ideas reminiscent of the midrashic tradition, and with an "unrepentant earthiness", they are reluctant to shy away from manâ??s not altogether dignified nature.